"Merry Christmas Emily," Cracker (Virgin)

From 2002's Forever album, promo copies actually made it on the radio for Christmas 2001 at some of the more enlightened stations around the country, all 22 of them. Cracker produced a solid, entertaining record about lost love that doesn't necessarily have to be about Christmas, but it's nice that it is. Bad word in the start of the second verse might keep this off some of our mix tapes and CDs, unfortunately. UPDATE: Collectors may want to track down those early promo copies, as they sanitized the bad word to "messed" rather than just muting or distorting it, according to the band.

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